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Chen, Xi - 2014

Relative deprivation (RD), also known as relative poverty, an idea implicitly put forward by Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations and formally conceptualized by Runciman (1966), refers to the discontent people feel when they compare their positions to others and realize that others in the group...

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Extended Income Inequality and Poverty Dynamics of Labour Market and Household Activities a Ten Years Microanalysis with the German Socio-Economic Panel

Merz, Joachim - 2014

Labour market dynamics according the individual working hour tension (preferred working hours minus actual working hours) of active people with focus on the self-employed, as professions and entrepreneurs, and employees are investigated in our study. The individual longitudinal analysis based on...

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Income Inequality During China's Economic Transition

Benjamin, Dwayne; Brandt, Loren; Giles, John; Wang, Sangui - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2005

This paper provides an overview of the evolution of income inequality in China from 1987 to 2002, employing three series of data sets. Our focus is on both urban and rural inequality, as well as the urban-rural gap, with the objective of summarizing several “first-order” empirical patterns...

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Relative Deprivation in China

Chen, Xi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Relative deprivation (RD), also known as relative poverty , an idea implicitly put forward by Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations and formally conceptualized by Runciman (1966), refers to the discontent people feel when they compare their positions to others and realize that others in the group...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260168

Whether 'Booming Economy' Has Reduced the Poverty Level in Bangladesh?

Rahman Ph.D (USA), Dr. Akim M.; Islam MS (DU), Saadi - 2021

Programs that deal with poverty issues in Bangladesh have increased some extent the entitlement of the poor, their social and economic awareness and empowerment. It has contributed improving the poverty situation in the country over the years. The poverty reduction rate over the period of 1990...

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Policy focus: A robust normative evaluation of India's performance in allocating risks of death

Gravel, Nicolas; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Tarroux, Benoit - In: Indian Growth and Development Review 1 (2008) 1, pp. 95-111

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a robust normative evaluation of the recent evolution of Indians' exposures to health-related risks. Design/methodology/approach – The paper compares empirically the distributions of individuals' risks of death in India on the basis of new...

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The Reconstruction of the Border Roads and Household Welfare in Nigeria: A Gender Study

Uchenna, Efobi - 2016

This study provides an ex-ante analysis of the welfare effect from the improvement of border road infrastructure in … local prices of imported rice taking into consideration the simulated price changes effect on household welfare across … rural than urban households. Such policies would likely produce larger welfare gains for poorer households than richer …

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The reconstruction of the border roads and household welfare in Nigeria : a gender study

Uchenna, Efobi - 2016

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Using pseudo-panels to measure income mobility in Latin America

Cuesta, José (contributor); Ñopo, Hugo (contributor); … - 2007

This paper presents a comparative overview of mobility patterns in 14 Latin American countries between 1992 and 2003. Using three alternative econometric techniques on constructed pseudo-panels, the paper provides a set of estimators for the traditional notion of income mobility as well as for...

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Measuring income in household panel surveys for Germany : a comparison of EU-SILC and SOEP

Frick, Joachim R.; Krell, Kristina - 2010

Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using microdata from the German Federal Statistical Office's contribution to the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) as well as data from the German...

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